septicemic plague
an acute fulminating form of plague with high-density bacteremia and fever, chills, prostration, abdominal pain, shock, and bleeding into skin and other organs. It can occur as a complication of bubonic or pneumonic plague, or can be a primary infection transmitted by fleas that may present and result in death before the appearance of buboes or of pulmonic manifestations. Septicemic plague does not spread from person to person. Called also plague septicemia.
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